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Did 'Game of Thrones' scenario shape evolution of first Europeans?
Europe's most well-known extinct humans, the Neanderthals, probably evolved their distinctive facial features in a chaotic "Game of Thrones" manner, as their ancestors clashed and competed in a harsh Ice Age environment, researchers say. A study of 17 fragmented skulls pulled from an underground karst in northern Spain shows that archaic Europeans bore a surprising diversity of facial features roughly 430,000 years ago, according to researchers.
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The Oldest Human Poop Ever Discovered Reveals What Neanderthals Ate
The 50,000-year-old sample was collected by hand.
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Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans, study finds
If you think Neanderthals were stupid and primitive, it's time to think again.
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Evolution of life’s operating system revealed in detail
The evolution of the ribosome, a large molecular structure found in the cells of all species, has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study.
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Tibetans Inherited High-Altitude Gene From Extinct Denisovan Ancestor
Their adaptation to high altitude was passed down by Denisovan ancestors.
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By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem
"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines."
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Like in Humans, Genes Drive Half of Chimp Intelligence, Study Finds
Chimpanzees and other great apes are known for their intelligence: They can learn words, play with objects, and even seem to mourn the deaths of their friends. But just as for humans, cognitive abilities vary from one animal to the next.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the World, and Humankind Must Adapt
In a post entitled “Machine Learning: Bane or Blessing for Mankind?,” I noted that the renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking along with his colleagues Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, and Frank Wilczek recommend moving cautiously in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the area of autonomous weapon systems. Hawking and his colleagues understand, however, that the AI genie has already been released from the bottle and there is no way to get it back in.
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Our Amazing Future
While teaching courses in the computer science department at the University of Texas at Austin, I came to believe that 21st century technology—especially nanotechnology, genetics, artificial intelligence...
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Not for plucking
AROUND 150m years ago, in the late Jurassic period, one of the earliest-known birds lived among the tropical islands in an area of the world that is now Europe. The fossilised remains of Archaeopteryx so struck Charles Darwin that he compared them to the skeletal structure of a small theropod dinosaur, and he concluded that feathers evolved in dinosaurs and that birds were their descendants.
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How Artificial Superintelligence Will Give Birth To Itself
There's a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves. Here's how a recursively self-improving AI could transform itself into a superintelligent machine.
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'Family on All Fours' Not an Evolutionary Throwback
New study argues against notion that Turkish family members are a backward stage in human evolution.
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Carnivorous Dinosaurs Shrank For Millions Of Years To Evolve Into Present-Day Birds
The ability of a certain type of dinosaur to evolve rapidly into pre-historic birds helped them survive mass extinction.
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Low testosterone could be what made us civilized humans
A new study indicates that hormone changes might have made us more social.
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Culture rose in ancient humans as testosterone fell, study says
Modern culture among ancient humans began to rise as levels of testosterone — associated with macho, aggressive behavior — fell, according to a new study conducted by a University of Utah biology graduate student. Robert Cieri and other researchers studied 1,400 ancient and modern human skulls, finding that their characteristics became more feminine as time progressed, indicating lowering testosterone levels. This reduction in testosterone coincided with leaps forward in human ...
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Extinct mega penguin was tallest and heaviest ever
A fossil foot bone found in Antarctica suggests that one extinct species of penguin was a true giant, clocking in at 115 kilograms.
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Why you should stop believing in evolution
When people joyously discover on Ancestry.com that they're related to, say, a medieval archduke or a notorious Victorian criminal, evolutionary biologists may be permitted to snicker. Because in actuality, we are all related: Humans all share at least one common ancestor if you go far enough back. You are related to every king and criminal who ever lived, to Gandhi and Paris Hilton and Carrot Top. You are even related to me.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
The intention of this project is to stress the importance of advancing the space frontier and is focused on igniting scientific curiosity in the general public.
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Ancient Yukon horse yields oldest genome ever
A 700,000-year-old horse bone found in the permafrost of a Yukon gold mine has yielded a complete genetic profile, breaking scientific records and revealing many new insights about the evolution of horses.
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This Ant Species May Support a Controversial Theory on Evolution
New research suggests that species don't have to be geographically separated in order to evolve
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